A couple of posts back I showed you a card with the Springtime Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper. If you missed it then just head back -> HERE.

After a little discussion with a lovely friend, a different colour was suggested – Pool Party. I thought that sounded a great idea. How would this gorgeous paper turn out in other colours? I had a little time on Saturday and quickly whipped up this card. I think the longest part was colouring the sentiment from the Label Me Prettyset. I haven’t used this set very much so it was good to play with it and I dusted off the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits.

So what do you think of this version?

For this one to be quick I patted the Pool Party ink pad over the paper then I used a sponge to rub over it to smooth out the ink. I was impatient. 🙂

I kept the card simple layering it on to a black card mat and then a Pool Party card base. I added the line of dragonflies from the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits.

The sentiment from Label Me Pretty was coloured with the Stampin’ Blends. I added a few loops of the Copper Thread under the sentiment and added some tiny Pearls in the flower centres.

Still shiny and sparkly! Thanks Lynda for the tip to try another colour. 🙂

I mentioned last post of 3 gorgeous new products for the 2nd release of Sale-A-Bration. I showed the beautiful Springtime Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper. I have more to share with that paper don’t you worry. Today though let’s talk about these lovely products. Also, just a reminder of what Sale-A-Bration is all about.

1) Eclectic Expressions – a fun stamp set with spots, dashes and other shapes along with “Happy Birthday” and “Thank you”. Available as a FREE choice with a minimum order of $90.2) Springtime Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper. Just Gorgeous! 12 sheets of 12″x12″ paper. 3 each of 4 designs with Silver, Gold, Rose Gold and Copper embossed patterns. Available as a FREE choice with a minimum order of $90.

If you missed the post yesterday about colouring this beautiful paper then be sure to jump back a post. Stay tuned for more projects though with this paper.

3) The gorgeous Blossoming Basket Bundle. With a beautiful stamp set the Blossoming Basketand the Basket Weave Embossing Folder. This bundle is available as a FREEchoice with a minimum order of $180.

What do you like the look of? It really is hard to choose though isn’t it.

SALE-A-BRATION UPDATE

Just a reminder of what Sale-A-Bration is if you are unsure. It runs until 31st March and you get the Free products.

HOW?

With every qualifying order (either $90 or $180) you choose a free item from the Sale-A-Bration choices. See them all -> HERE.

Step 1: Pick a Date.Step 2: Invite your friends for a fun time out creating.Step 3: If you like, choose your projects or theme.Step 4:Let’s stamp.

It’s that easy! And if people choose to order and orders are over $400 you can an extra $40 to spend on free products. Let’s make a date.

If you love the products and love Free stuff this is for you! Pay $169 for $235 of products of your choice (save $66), Plus choose an additional 2 free stamp sets up to $174. (Bonus!). Plus there is no shipping. (saving again).

So $240 of free products PLUS save on shipping.

Come and join me on my JEN’s INK team whether you just want the free stuff, you want the discount each time or you want to share stamping with others. Either way it’s a WIN!Ask me if you have any questions or I can send you an Information Pack. (For Australian residents only)

Thanks for visiting today. I hope your weekend has been great. Until next time.

Jenny

Need some stamping supplies?

You can order online directly in my store -> HERE. Australian residents only. This week’s Host Code: 6NRCJVMT

The gorgeousness just keeps on coming for Sale-A-Bration. Yesterday was the 2nd release of fantastic, beautiful new free choices that you can receive with your qualifying orders.I think you will love them. I do. 🙂 If you haven’t seen them yet then I will show them to you in the next couple of posts.

Today I want to show you the gorgeous Springtime Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper.To be honest it really doesn’t do it justice in the catalogue but you can see them in this image.

Last week I shared a video on my Facebook page showing the sparkle and shine of this paper. It truly is just gorgeous! If you didn’t see it head to my page -> HERE and scroll down a little to see it. You really must.

Today I was playing around with it. I have seen some images of it this past week inking it so thought I would give it a whirl. I have to say it just lifts the gorgeousness to a whole new level. This is the finished card I made.

I posted a video on Youtube of how to colour this gorgeous paper. It was a very quick video but might give you some idea.

Here it is for you.

If you like a visual of this then it is simply a matter of rolling over it with your sponge roller and inkpad. It does take some time but it is worth it. I did dab some ink on with my inkpad too. You can do that if you get a bit impatient. Then roll over it with the roller to smooth it.

On my card to finish I cut the “celebrate” from the Celebrate You Thinlits and added the “YOU” stamped on Powder Pink. I found that a better match with the inked paper in the end. I finished it off with some Black Baker’s Twine and cut a vellum leaf from the Flourish Thinlits.

Hope you like it? I really think you need this paper. It is a free choice now added for Sale-A-Brationwhen you have a minimum $90 order. It doesn’t take much to get to $90 by the time you grab a stamp set and stock up on your paper and adhesives. What about the sponge rollers? Do you have them?

I look forward to playing more with this paper so stay tuned.

Have a great weekend,

Jenny

IN AUSTRALIA?

You can order these products and any other Stampin’ Up! products in my store -> HERE now. Please use the Host Code this week: 6NRCJVMT

I was going to share these cards with you as part of a Bloghop tonight BUT I was too busy making the cards and fussing around with other things that when I came to register for the Bloghop I found that it was full already. That’s a bit disappointing. 😦 It doesn’t matter big time really I guess. I can still share them with you. I hope that you like them.

The theme for the Bloghop was colouring. Stampin’ Up! have a great number of choices for colouring with the Inkpads, markers, Blends, Watercolour Pencils and now the Brusho Crystals. So many choices what should I do?? I am no way an expert in colouring but I have been trying my hand at it a bit recently. I decided in the end to go with the Stampin’ Blends.

I used a technique you might have seen around a bit. The Black Magic technique. It’s an oldie but a goodie. It’s colouring over White heat embossed images. You can use pencils or the markers.

STEPS TO CREATE YOUR BLACK MAGIC CARDS

Of course you can use a multiple of colours for your images but I thought for this particular image one colour worked better. I made a set of cards in 4 different colours.

2. Allow to cool slightly and then colour over it with the Stampin’ Blends. I went over the image twice to intensify the colours.

3. I coloured some of the White Organza Ribbon with the Stampin’ Blendsto match and layered it on a strip of the Silver Foil.The sentiment was stamped on the coloured card and cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits and that was raised up with Dimensionals.

4. The black card was adhered to a piece of Silver Foil. TIP: cut the centre from the foil so you can use it for something else. It is only getting hidden after all. Before you adhere this piece to your card base stamp your card base with the “earphone” image in the set in the same colour as the card.

This Epic Celebrations set is one of the free choices for Sale-A-Bration. Have you got your set yet? It’s great for the young teen cards.

I showed you in yesterday’s post the cute Flip Top Treat Boxusing the Lots To Love Box Framelits. Here it is if you missed it but you can jump back to the last post though too and see more of it and the instructions.

This is actually a cute little Framelit set but there were parts that I wasn’t sure what they were used for. Like those little tiny arch shaped dies down at the bottom of the image below???

I found this video from Stampin’ Up! explaining the pieces and showing some great projects. I thought for my Wednesday WOW! #14this week we will take a look at this set. Very timely today being Valentine’s Day right. ❤ It does work well with the matching Sure Do Love You stamp set too.

That explains everything!

You can grab the Framelits in my store now -> HERE $57 AUS or grab the bundle and use them together. Clear mount stamp set is $84.50 AUS See that -> HERE.

Aren’t these projects pretty? These are from the current Occasions Catalogue and shows how gorgeous the products are especially with the beautiful Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series paper. SO much prettiness!

Thanks for visiting me today. Always nice of you to drop by whether you are from near or far. I hope your day has been a great one.

So it is Valentine’s Day here tomorrow apparently. We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day in a big way in Australia. You might give your “significant other” a little chocolate treat and I do give my 2 kiddies (well they are mostly adults now), a little chocolate treat.

I thought that this year I should do SOMETHING! I have had the Lots to Love Box Framelitsfor a couple of weeks and not used them. I had this in mind for about that long too. So I just managed to create it in time.

I call it a Flip Top Treat Box.I am sure you could use the idea for a Gift Card not just chocolates.

This is with the Flip Top open. Mmm! Chocolate Hearts!

It has a little card insert in it to add the Chocolates. I added a Glue Dot under each one to stick them them to the card. I added a loop of ribbon which was adhered to the end of the card and then I added a small red punched circle to cover it.

CREATE YOUR OWN FLIP TOP TREAT BOX

1. Cut 2 of the box shapes from the Lots To Love Box Framelits from your card.

On one piece which will be your top score it at half way along the long side of the box. This will be at 6cm (2 3/8″) which is from the scored line measurement not from the start of the curved edge.

2.Place adhesive on the underside along the long tabs ONLY to the half way point that will be adhered to the box. You don’t want to adhere the whole section or it won’t open. I added the adhesive on the curved end half.

3. Adhere the top piece to the bottom piece of the die-cut box. Your bottom piece will have the curved end to the opening end as shown in the photo below.

4. Decorate the box as you like. I used the Party Pandas set. The hearts were cut from the Lots of Love Box Framelits set. The sentiment was cut with the Layering Square Framelits.

So cute enough for Valentine’s do you think? Maybe it is a little late now to whip some up but file it away for another special Occasion.

I think this is my favourite card. I really like how it turned out. Can I say that?? Sometimes I am hesitant to say that about something I have made. But I like the effect of it and I have to say it is just chance really. When you use these Brusho Crystals you don’t know how it will work.

The butterfly is from A Beautiful Dayset. For the sentiment I masked the first word in the sentiment from the set to just stamp the “thinking of you” and heat embossed it in white.

To find out how to create this effect I have a video for you.

So what are your thoughts on the Brusho Crystals? Have you tried them? Do you think now you might give them a go? Let me know what you think. I would love to hear.

Just a reminder that my 15% off the Brusho Crystalsends at 8pm tonight. If you want to grab them and save money on then just drop me a comment or email me and I will get that sorted for you. Included is an information sheet to help you use your set of Brushos. I hope you will give them a try. I don’t think it is the last you will see of these from me.

What did you think of yesterday’s project?? I have a another project for you today.

We saw yesterday creating a background with the background. They are really fun to use them that way. This is another type of background. I don’t have a video for this one but I will walk you through it.

CREATING A BACKGROUND WITH THE BRUSHO CRYSTAL COLOURS

On this card I have used Shimmery White card and I have added the Brusho to dry card.

On your card sprinkle over your Brusho Crystals. I added the Brilliant Red in the right hand corner, a small amount of the Gamboge in the centre section and the Yellow on the left. Use the Spritzer and lightly spritz the card with water. It’s always magical watching the crystals dissolve and the colour emerge. It’s one of those moments like heat embossing. Do you feel that?? 🙂

Take your time and just play and watch what happens. You may want to spritz more or you may want to add more crystals. The “speckly” effect is created by sprinkling with the Crystals and only spritzing lightly so they are more spots than actually blended if that makes sense??

Leave your card to dry.

Once dry you can assemble the card. For this one I stamped the flowers from Birthday Blossomsin the corner and the sentiment at the top. I was going to stamp the sentiment and raise it up and I think I should have done that but never mind it’s more to see the Brusho effect. I love the thin White Organza ribbon. So soft and pretty to tie. The base card is Flirty Flamingo. It worked out a good match for it even with using the Red on the card. The bird from Birds and Blooms Thinlits were cut in Silver Foil.

Thanks for stopping by for this one. Come on by tomorrow. I think I have left my favourite until last.